So far I’ve tried e-mailing about this problem but heard no reply so I thought hopefully you guys can see my problem here.

The problem I get is that when I double click on a file to open it within PA it won’t, since it won’t recognize my custom classes, as shown below (here is an example of mp3):

//==Start==

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.mp3]
@=“”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.mp3\DefaultIcon]
@=“C:\WINDOWS\Icons\FileIcons\FoobarFile.ico”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.mp3\shell]
@=“foobar2000.play”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.mp3\shell\Audacity]
@=“Edit in Audacity”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.mp3\shell\Audacity\command]
@="“C:\Programs\Audacity\audacity.exe” “%1"”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.mp3\shell\VLC.play]
@=“Play in VLC”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.mp3\shell\VLC.play\command]
@="“C:\Programs\VLC\vlc.exe” –intf wxwin --advanced “%1"”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.mp3\shell\foobar2000.play]
@=“Play in foobar2000”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.mp3\shell\foobar2000.play\command]
@="“C:\Programs\foobar2000\foobar2000.exe” “%1"”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.mp3\shell\foobar2000.enqueue]
@=“Enqueue in foobar2000”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.mp3\shell\foobar2000.enqueue\command]
@="“C:\Programs\foobar2000\foobar2000.exe” /ADD “%1"”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.mp3\shell\MediaPlayerClassic.play]
@=“Play in Media Player Classic”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.mp3\shell\MediaPlayerClassic.play\command]
@="“C:\Programs\MPC\mplayerc.exe” “%1"”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.mp3\shell\MediaPlayerClassic.enqueue]
@=“Enqueue in Media Player Classic”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.mp3\shell\MediaPlayerClassic.enqueue\command]
@="“C:\Programs\MPC\mplayerc.exe” /ADD “%1"”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.mp3\shell\IrfanView]
@=“View in IrfanView”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.mp3\shell\IrfanView\command]
@="“C:\Programs\IrfanView\i_view32.exe” “%1"”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.mp3\shell\wmplayer]
@=“Play in Windows Media Player”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.mp3\shell\wmplayer\command]
@=““C:\Programs\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe” /Play “%L””

//==End==

From what I can see (I shall use the above as an example), PowerArchiver looks for the file type (.mp3) and sees there is no supposed location for the action (it makes my job easier to put it under the extension you see), so it ignores that there is indeed an action under .mp3, unfortunately PA is the only application I’ve come accross that doesn’t like this.

I actually have the latest stable (9.20) but it has done the same thing since 9.0+ I think, I’ve just beared with it for a while.

Is it possible to let windows just handle it instead of PA looking for the class?

Hope you can fix it, thanks.

Not possible, your files are gone! Once this has happened to you, you’ll never forget again… I always use the same password for everything so I don’t lose access to anything.

@TBGBe:

This is all using windows explorer - so it does use the shell extension. :confused:

Or do you mean you want a seperate “context menu” option such as
“extract to …\filename” ?

Hmm, “other utilities” don’t have it, so maybe it would be another advantage to using PA.

Sorry - what I meant to say is that it is available under the RMB, like “Extract to”.
It would then have to be named like “Extract to \multiple filenames” (or something
similar)

Thank you.
brgds
–

Thanks!

We will check it out.

PowerArchiver uses SHA-1 only for crypting CRCs of original files in PAE format, and not for encrypting passwords. This makes our PAE files still safe enought, since hacking original CRC file still doesn’t give you original file nor password for decrypting original file.

Brut-force attach on PAE files are also much slower since you have to decrypt file, then calculate CRC of decrypted file and then see if is matches with SHA-1 CRC in header.

@davidsplash:

it does extract tfile to the folder.

it should snot even atrt the process of extractimng if its the wrong password

Eh, its checking the password by extracting the file. Since password is wrong, extracted file is garbage and it gets deleted.

While we could have done password checking via stored hash of the password which would be still considered secure and very fast, this way dictionary based attacks are much, much slower and raise passive security of the pae files up a notch.

It also might help in the future because if some hashing algorithm gets cracked completly, it can not be used to recover the data.

Yes, I see that too.
Select non Zip format e.g CAB, Don’t compress etc
Close options
Open options
Select Zip - AES Encyption is available.
Leave AES Encyption unchecked.
Close options
Open options
Zip is selected - but AES Encyption check is greyed out.

Please update to PA 9.2, I believe this was an issue before we implemented new tar support (9.1? time flies fast).

thanks,

if u type powerarchiver in internet explorer pa opens up however if u type powerarchiver in the start run box it does not work. Why doesn’t this feature work

@streetskater:

I’d be glad to check out PA9.5 from this end although I have no idea where to locate that verson–assume it’s an internal beta.

No
Current release version is 9.2 - 9.5 will be the next release version.

I think/hope this was a :p
http://www.powerarchiver.com/forums/showthread.php?t=610

Regarding PAR2 & Yenc files - I don’t know.
Maybe your newsgroup has a FAQ which covers this?

@Cyber:

Alright, thanks. Additional question then, how is the the free 7-zip compression program from sourceforge supports Update and Add and Freshen options in addition to add and replace, yet PA only has add & replace for 7z? I assume they all use the same compression engine since it’s open source… Or is this another thing that will be available in a future release when the dll is updated?

Currently we can not use move function. It is possible that we could use it with new support in 9.5, but I am not sure yet. We would also have to test it extensivly to make sure it works only when it should, so even if we are able to add support for it, we might not if it is not 100% reliable.

In general, if it was up to me, we wouldnt have move function at all, because there is always an possibility for end user to lose their data.

Obviously Igor Pavlov who created 7zip has a lot more insight into how it works than what we do, so 7zip support will always be the best inside 7zip itself :-).

thanks,

UNINST.EXE has been removed - we now use installer’s uninstall routing which is much smaller.

No features are removed. Only new added:)

@klumy:

bug seems to be fixed now in the newest final ;)

eh, you didnt download latest, did you? :-)

bug is still there in the newest final version of PA !!

@Charles:

Also, (and this is an ommission I have mentioned before) check under “Select Backup Type” window, “Save as Type:” and you’ll see all formats listed, except BZip Tar is missing.

Beat me to it…
Bzip :o - that’s MY format - you stick with BH :D

Heh, I can sleep too then :-)

thanks,

Unfortunatly I dont think we can - cab compression is always done via cabinet.dll which is supplied by MS and its development has stopped long, long time ago.

sorry,

Hi,

you can test new release from here:
http://www.powerarchiver.com/test/release/powarc920.exe

Please let us know if it works fine asap.

thanks,

@Anthony1uk:

Thanks but is there anyway that i could set it now or you could set in future releases that if i choose three objects and right click on one them the archive will be named what i right clicked on.

As to me it seems strange it would only give you the option to call it desktop.zip i mean why would anyone want to call their archive that?

Thanks for all your help though

Say you want to put aa.txt bb.doc and cc.exe into cc.zip.

Right click cc.exe and create cc.zip containing just cc.exe

Then select aa.txt and bb.doc and drop them on to cc.zip

cc.zip will now contain copies of all three files

I haven’t used version 6 of PA but I would guess that it doesn’t support files over 2GB. PA 6 is very old and is no longer supported.

I would highly recommend upgrading to PA 9, which only costs $20 and for that you get upgrades for life.

If you have an idea of the length of the password (eg. between 5 and 8 characters) along with a range of characters that were used for the password (eg. A-Z letters and 0-9 digits), then it’s possible to write a script using the command-line version of PA (ie. PACL) to brute-force try all possible combinations.

just to inform people who think pa is behind on 7zip support they are wrong the only 7zip.dll avaliable at the moment is the one out officially.

great work pa keep on going.

@spwolf:

I think I know what happened - He used german version of 9.2 and PAOP 1.00 does not recognize non-english versions properly (different registry key is used for every different language so they can co-exist properly).

Once 9.2 is released, PAOP update will be as well, so it can be used with other language versions of PowerArchiver.

thanks,

same answer!

Aw well, leave it then!

Interesting. thanks a lot!

thank you for the informative replies; that was helpful. thank you :)

For all we care, you can keep using it forever. However since it is not distributed anymore, you should not really install it on new computers. That being said, we dont care.

What we care about is that it is an +4 year old software full of its own bugs. A lot of people still preffer it to the other freeware zip however I RECCOMEND anyone to use newer software that was designed for newer operating systems and has its issues fixed!

I really dont reccomend the use of PA 6.xx or any other PA version than latest, or of any other software for that matter. We improve PA working on it on daily basis and we feel that is what you should use.

thanks,

sorry about the delay computer was being mended. the problem is that sometomes powerarchiver stops responding for a while while working writing or opening/ extracting to cds and zip drives.

But I like Norton AntiVirus :-)

“The world’s most trusted antivirus solution”

I don’t know of an “on-line translation”, but if you need a reference guide to “translate” common terminology (not technical) try http://www.effingpot.com/index.shtml

FYI: On the credits link from the “About Page” for Powerarchiver v9.20.06 is:

“For compression and decompression of BZIP2 compressed files (.bz, .bz2, .tbz, .tbz2) PowerArchiver makes use of LIBBZ2.DLL. The BZIP2 project is completely free and available to everyone. More information can be found at http://sourceware.cygnus.com/bzip2.
We wish to give thanks to everyone who helped us create PowerArchiver, and send a special thanks to the following people:
· David Cornish
–- who improved explorer shell extensions, added SFX CAB support, created the original toolbar skin, offered many suggestions, found many bugs, and provided many solutions to problems. You can get David’s wonderful SFX Maker here.”

http://sourceware.cygnus.com/bzip2 appears not to exist. There is an underlined link “here” after “SFX Maker” that points to
http://sfxmaker.powerarchiver.com/ , which says only “serving you at the speed of light”

Fixed in .06

Guido

Just wanted to post this link incase anybody is looking to batch zip folders wihout having all seperat files. It took a lot of searching, but I found one and it works pretty good. It is called PPP

John

Ok, got it, fixed.

thanks,

:eek: I spoke too soon! Using .bh through the shell extension on version 9.20.06 now locks the file with an unknown password! :confused: Compressing through the GUI works fine–just the way it is supposed to!
I was so thrilled to have blakhole back in action I responded before complete testing! Sorry!

:confused: I am beginning to feel bad that I ever started this thread…. Honest, Spwolf, there was a new thread referring to Free Pronography posted in Tech Support at 6 a.m. CST (USA) on Thursday February 17 (yesterday). I posted ahead of it just to knock it off the main forum page until someone could remove it entirely so that newcomers to this site would not see it and wonder. I didn’t mean to cause all of this confusion. Sorry!

P.S. Thanks for fixing blakhole compression in 9.20.06! Great job as usual! :D

Check it out with this release:
http://www.powerarchiver.com/test/release/powarc920.exe

thanks,

Unfortunatly, it is an 4 year old version of PowerArchiver afterall :-)

If I find something I’ll surely report it here.

Thats a good workaround since I dont believe unrar.dll has this “feature”.

thanks,

Unfortunatelly our ZIP engine has problems deleting large amount of specific files. We will contact them to see what we can do.

Open this file with NOTEPAD and check if it is PAE file - it must have correct PowerArchiver PAE header, checksum and encrpytion method…

at least, for the file in my first post!
I’ll be checking with some other ones!

in the meantime, very well done, guys!! :)

well done! ;)

thank you, we will check it out!

thank you, it is nice that hard work is appreciated, even if fixing things :-)

To start with - welcome.
Sorry, but it is not clear to me what you are asking (I now little about Linux).

As a start, if you want help on using the Linux TAR comand - try here (found via google)
http://www.computerhope.com/unix/utar.htm

If you are asking for other help - remember this is a forum for PowerArchiver (a Windows program) :D
As such, Linux help may be very limited (and slow).

According to the option text

"Show Images (including attached images and images in )

i know it is mispelled but shawly it should of used its brain and found powerarchiver.

Thanks! :)

@Claude:

we can’t create zip/cab self extracting exe

@ivan:

Actually it is mentioned in PA Help;) Go to PA Help -> Details -> Command Line Options.

No it isn’t. Help only mentions

If the archive is a ZIP file POWERARC -tosfx “filename.ext”

there is no mention of cab files (or any other sfx format) except zip.

… for all other compression/decompression stuff we recommend PACL.

The original question was about using PACL and not PowerArchiver.

According to manual.txt - SFX from PACL is not possible (at the moment).

@klumy:

BTW

I hope next version of PA will update to the newest Inno Setup version ;)

it already is…

I see you already found this in wishlist.
No further replies needed.

Thanks! :)

Hi,

you should email the file to us at our support@conexwareREMOVEE.com email address. Just make sure it is small enough. That way we will be able to check it out a bit better.

thanks

Is it my destiny to live without Power Archiver?
Only if you don’t keep up to date (if you encounter a problem).

With Winrar I don’t have any problems…
You not really trying ;)

" I love Angelina Jolie! "
Whoa, a little bit more information than I asked for … unless you are archiving her photos. If so, care to provide some examples of the archives you are working with … just for testing - honest.

A bit more info regarding the KAV problem:

I used Filemon (www.sysinternals.com) to see what the difference was between PA and WinZip. The result is that PA actually opens the file and closes it, which is obviously what’s causing KAV to scan the file. WinZip on the other hand only queries the files, but does not actually open it, hence KAV does not scan the file in this case.

I know PA 9.2 will be released for alpha testing soon, but thought I’d let you know about this extra info now.

Shell extensions (explorer right click) - when activated this option is only available for Zip compression.
Is there a configuration (or profile) I have missed which enables changing the compression format used - or should this be in WishList?

Hi,

Currently, PowerArchvier does not display CRC or packed size info for 7zip archives. In general, when archive is solid (which means that all files are treated as one big file) you do not have single file info. 7zip still stores CRC info but no packed info, so you wont see compression ratio either.

We will implement support for displaying full info in non-solid archives and crc info in solid archives when we update our 7zip support for 9.5.

CRC signature is still checked when archive is being extracted by 7zip.dll, so you should get an error message if file is corrupted.

thanks,

thanks - we will check it out!

In fact it s not a pb on software or os but an ntuser.dat corruption. :rolleyes:
Indeed my users was unable to update or add key in their registry without replace their ntuser.dat with a blank one.

Thx davidsplash & manuangi for your help

yannis

I’ve noticed problems with PowerArchiver & zip associations in the past. More often than not I’ve had to re-register the association with Explorer in order to view them as folders after installing Power Archiver, even though I’ve not selected zip files as a type to associate with Power Archiver. This didn’t seem to be a problem when installing 9.11 on a fresh XP SP2 install recently, although now for some reason Explorer won’t open zip folders in the same window any more. It will open them in a new Window, but I can’t work out how to change the default action back to ‘Explore’ rather than ‘Open’.
I can only assume that Power Archiver caused this problem.

Hi,
it seem there is one small bug in listing of archive.
recently i downloaded the trial version of Corel Graphic Suite 12 from www.corel.com and decided to view the archive and PA 9.11 didn’t list its content it showed only one dir. When I entered this dir and returned back PA showed already 3 dirs but no files in root dir. At the same time WinR** could list the archive and 7-zip also could.

P.S.
PA extracted the archive w/o problems.
The archive itself contains 3 dirs and 6 files in root dir.

Alexander.

Without giving too much away :p
check forum Alpha Testing / General

@Java:

I downloaded evaluation version several times after it did not work the first time, but had the same (non) results. Double-clicking on the powarc911.exe (either on the Windows desktop or inside a folder) causes it to do nothing. [Actually, it does make a Windows error-beep sound, but nothing else happens!]

Is my system too low in reqources? Using MS Windows 2000 Pro (5.00.2195 SP4) on an Intel Penium 4 CPU , 2 GHz, 512 KB RAM. (Free RAM XP Pro reports I have 259 MB of RAM free.) I do have McAFee Virus Shield enabled. What else could be the problem?

If you need additional information to diagnose this problem, please let me know what else I should let you know. All help will be much appreciated.

What a pity! This looked just like the thing I needed right now!

~ JC ~

Hi,

It could be that:

your download has been corrupted and you have been re-downloading bad but cached copy you dont have admin rights or your MCAFEE is blocking PA’s execution.

Assuming that you have admin rights and that McAfee is not causing problems, can you tell us what is exact size of powarc911.exe when you check it in Windows Explorer? You might want to redownload it by holding shift and then clicking on the link PLUS saving it as with different name.

thanks,

@spwolf:

You just enter . into the filename field and it will show you all the files in that folder, if you select that SFX archive, it will “fix it” even if it is an EXE.

Problem with putting general “*.exe” in there is that, obviously, it would show both SFX archives and all other EXE files. While you might know the difference, an average user might not :-).

thanks,

right, but the average user would never guess to put the . to be shown all files…I guess I’m more than an average user, but I couldn’t think of that simple trick! the normal user should be assisted in the largest way, I believe…

and don’t forget that the tool’s named “Zip repair”…so one can’t promptly guess that it can be useful also with exe sfx archives…

it’s a .pae file, so there’s no recovery for that i guess. i kind of figured that.

Try PowerArchiver!
http://www.powerarchiver.com/download/

You will love it! ;)

PowerArchiver has a modern easy-to-use interface, and provides support for most compressed and encoded files, as well as access to many powerful features and tools. I believe that PowerArchiver is the most complete archive utility available today.

Try it!

Thanks,

i come across this problem, however its not just msdos thats the problrm but a computers internal clock can also cause problems

thanks a lot, we will check it out.

I think I can live with that

thanks ;)

@deipotent:

Since nameless is an Alpha tester, can I take his place after he’s left ? :)

you can become alpha tester no matter what. Just send me an email when you want and I will let you in :-).

Dont worry about him, he will come back eventually, he always does :-).
He just gets angered quickly… If someone elses notices problem with RAR files, please let us know… We have few alpha testers that do a lot of unraring daily and I use it a lot and nobody reported any issues that are similar to this one

thanks,

@deipotent:

The error message “Check that file is not in use” is incorrect as well. It should say something like “The filename or extension is too long” instead.

indeed.

I’m about to set-up a forum myself soon. Is there any particular reason you decided to pay for vBulletin instead of using the free phpBB (or other free alternatives) ?

I know it’s possible, question is… How hard is it. Since the user responds “No” to overwrite prompts, PA knows what that user response is. If all PA gets back is nothing but “No”, then … nothing got extracted. :)

Thanks for reading.

@deipotent:

How about a separate setting so they can be configured independently of each other.

tooo many options already :-). We have to think of way to reduce them somehow, even while adding new features, because for an normal user, option menu is way too overwhelming as it is.

We could set it always to be small icons in right click menu, same as what Windows Explorer does…

How can I go about backing up the saved password list?

@Charles:

In 9.11 “Set Password” is still not grayed-out when selecting .bh options to compress. And clicking on it still asks for a password and verification, but no password is set. In other formats (except zip, of course) it is grayed-out as it should be. I know it is not supposed to work in P.A., and it is not needed when we have PAE Encryption, but newbies will not know it. I last reported this a month ago. I was looking forward to seeing this fixed in this release. It is not fixed in P.A. Backup Express Lite, either. I am a little disappointed, but I’ll get over it. :) :) :)

Thats why it was not replied to. We will need 9.2 to add support for bh passwords and it will need a bit of testing.

thanks,

Hi,

9.11 has solved this issue.

thanks!

This issue has been solved in 9.11.

thank you for your reports!

New update is out now

Version 9.11 [December/2004]
Maintenance release

Changes:

Faster ZIP compression in certain situations. Improved support for HP-UX file systems accessible on a LAN. Drag and Drop improvements. Various fixes and smaller enhancements.

yes however it created a reapir achive and in the repair windows beside all the files listed it said ok and created the archive. It should not have created an archive if the resulting archive was corrupt

There is an known issue with Startup Guard that crashes systes after PowerArchiver is run. Other than that, it could be hard driver or ram issue as well.

Generally speaking there is no known issue with PA causing system to crash and thats after few million downloads of 9.xx release.

As david noted, try reinstalling PowerArchiver.
If it still happens, scan your hd for errors and if there is nothing found, let us know and we will show you how to check what might be running unde pa.exe that is not from us.

thank you and have a nice holidays…

We will check it out a bit futher - there is an bug there that does not allow PA to extract/open files that are smaller than windows limitation of 255 character (which is zip limitation as well), and this is what you are actually experiencing. I am not sure what exactly is current PA’s limit, it seems greater than 220 characters and less than 250. We will check it out more and fix it in one of the future revisions (but probably not the one this week since we need more time to test if we did not brake something else).

thanks for the report.

ultra is the problem would it not be best to have normal used instaed of ultra if the user wants ultra to add it themselves.

Thank you for reply!

Executing “dir” can activate virus that is already in memory (memory resistant virus).

But nor “dir” or “extract” can activate virus - on a clean computer virus can be activated only by executing - not any other action.

So don’t worry about it.

Hi,

you are correct - limit is 262,144 files per archive, everyone writes “Unlimited” or virtually unlimited because it is considered to be hard to reach. Same goes to archive file size, which is not unlimited either but it is more than a terabyte.

PowerArchiver fully supports PkWare’s 4.5 standard, so it supports whatever that standard supports. I have to say that I wasnt even aware of actual number itself, and PkWare usually writes “virtually unlimited” in the press releases, same as WinZip.

PkWare original press release stated:

ZIP Format Enhancements Virtually Eliminate Limitations on Archive Size and Number of Files (in an Archive)

We probably should change it on our feature page to show the actual number of files supported. Thanks for pointing it out.

regards,

Hi,

You could rename the files inside of zip file that cause Windows file system issues.
We could create some check if filenames have any “special” characters that are not allowed but I could see some serious performance issues there in case when archive has thousands of files.

As long as you are not doing this on daily basis, it would be far easier to simply rename the files in question :-).

thanks,

Hi,

In Action drop down, select “Move” instead of “Add (and replace) files”.

thanks,